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Alan Arkin (Actor)

For everybody, the tide comes in, the tide goes out - if you're an actor, particularly.

— Alan Arkin art

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.

— Alan Arkin books

No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.

— Alan Arkin sin

That's the privilege of old age: You don't have to remember.

— Alan Arkin age

Everybody's career has ups and downs. I like to take chances; I don't like to stand still. And I don't give a damn what the market is interested in; I want to try things.

— Alan Arkin body

I don't believe there's anything in life you can't go back and fix. The ancient Vedas - the oldest Hindu philosophy - and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that's true, there's no such thing as a past or a future - it's all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.

— Alan Arkin life

I don't know why we have to put things in boxes of superlatives. That isolates them. Life is fluid, and the minute you start trying to put a line around something, it will deceive you and go away.

— Alan Arkin art

I don't live in L.A. on purpose because I don't wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people, in order to inform what I'm doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.

— Alan Arkin life

I had a hard time treating my field as if it's horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other. I see how the industry and the studios feel it's important, but I don't really have a feeling for being in competition. I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.

— Alan Arkin time

I love insane, stupid comedy, but I can only make it work if it's a character I can give some history to and make real. Like the guy I played in 'Little Miss Sunshine.' He's a maniac, but to me he was absolutely believable.

— Alan Arkin love

I love working if it's with people who are capable of having a good time. People with a little bit of enjoyment of what they do. If it's enormous pressure, and people feel that their lives are at stake, then it's agony. So I try to pick projects where I feel like I'm going to avoid those traps.

— Alan Arkin love

Something I miss terribly from the '60s - the most important phrase in the English language was, 'I got hung up.' Somebody says they got hung up, it's unassailable, you know? You don't go near that. Whoa! I know what that can be like.

— Alan Arkin language

You have to think of your career the way you look at the ocean, deciding which wave you're gonna take and which waves you're not gonna take. Some of the waves are going to be big, some are gonna be small, sometimes the sea is going to be calm. Your career is not going to be one steady march upward to glory.

— Alan Arkin war

But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things.

— Alan Arkin life

I'm very old. I haven't got time to be charming.

— Alan Arkin time

Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works - winning best actor is arbitrary.

— Alan Arkin work

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

— Alan Arkin art

I get a little upset, yeah, if a year goes by and I don't get a script. Thank God I have other interests that keep me from becoming a nervous wreck.

— Alan Arkin god

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

— Alan Arkin people

I wrote my epitaph: He started out a particle and ended up a wave.

— Alan Arkin art

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

— Alan Arkin honesty

You hit a certain age, and you haven't died yet, and you become an elder statesman. I think I get a lot of applause because I'm not keeling over.

— Alan Arkin man

I did a couple of movies in Brazil, and the actors were incredibly congenial and hung out together a lot. Even the biggest stars would do radio commercials - they're not put on a pedestal like they are in the United States.

— Alan Arkin stars

I don't sense that I am someone's hero, though I'm happy when people like my work. I've learned how to be gracious about it, but I try to let it go by. I've seen how, if people start taking on those accolades, it can ruin them completely.

— Alan Arkin art

I had to jump around in the arts for a while just to survive. I earned a little money here and there, playing the guitar at union meetings, functions. I sold some science-fiction stories. I knew there was absolutely no question of me not being connected with the arts, but I couldn't find any acting jobs.

— Alan Arkin science

For everybody, the tide comes in, the tide goes out - if youre an actor, particularly.

— Alan Arkin art

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